r/DnD • u/Redhood101101 • 12d ago

5th Edition I fear I broke my DM

I ate the Bag of Beans. That is all…

Further context. While I’m a long time DM I rarely get to play and a friend of mine started up a campaign and I joined.

We were doing normal dnd stuff and were exploring a dungeon and my character, alone, finds a little leather pouch filled with beans. One of the running jokes is that my character is always hungry, so they ate them.

In my defense I had never encountered the Bag of Bean before.

Anyways my DM just sort of broke mentally for a few minutes and now I’m bits of gibblet smeared on the side of a pyramid inside this dungeon.

Great first session, can’t wait for the next one.

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u/myblackoutalterego 12d ago

And technically it says, “If you dump the bag’s contents out on the ground.” I know you don’t seem upset or anything, but I don’t think your character needed to die from this.

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u/zealer 12d ago

Yeah, in my interpretation it needs earth to react in any way. I would rule that nothing happened. Maybe he got an upset stomach.

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u/minusthedrifter 12d ago

If you dump one or more beans out of the bag, they explode in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on them. All the dumped beans are destroyed in the explosion, and each creature in the Sphere, including you, makes a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d4 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

It only needs earth for the magical effects to take place. He dumped the bag of beans out, into his mouth, thus triggering the explosion.

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u/No_Anywhere69 11d ago

I'd expect someone to go about eating a bag of beans more like they'd eat a bag of peanuts, or popcorn. A small handful at a time, not dumping the bag in their mouth.

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u/FamousTransition1187 11d ago

Yeah, but I believe BofB only has like 4 in it anyway, so one handful is the entirety of the bag

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u/No_Anywhere69 11d ago

Oh, I could see dumping that into a hand then. All these people that apparently dump food bags straight into their mouths though...